So You Wanna Be a Makeup Artist

5. Hello there.
   Have you decided, since you heard some makeup artists are doing well, and your friends always told you “your makeup looks nice”, you should go invest in some Mary Kay foundations, a few Sleek palettes, a cheap set of brushes, and a plan to buy a jeep on your makeup artist’s salary?
   
   Bet you didn’t realise, that this would take time, and skills which are quite hard to learn, that while your friends are sleeping a bank holiday away, you’re slogging off to a job; they’re in the cool air-conditioned office, while you’re on a beach somewhere, in the hot tropical sun (not the cute breezy weather, but the “OMG I’m gonna pass out without a cool drink of water” weather); that they’d be able to afford holidays while you wait for the phone to ring with a job; all those mornings of 6 a.m call-times to Set and constantly having to smooth everyone’s frayed nerves when a fight starts; the people who say “I love your work, I have N30,000, please do 9 hours of work on that, I’m too broke to pay you more”, whilst they handle their Ipads in front of your confused eyes (how can you afford an Ipad and be broke? How many bus conductors have Ipads, or are they cheap); those “makeup girls” who flood the market doing shoddy work and then copy your work and making your pay reduce.
   
   Please believe all the above. Now, think again, and answer the question:
   “So you wanna be a makeup artist?”